ILNA news agency: Regarding the
issue of collecting tax on vacant houses, Seyyed Mohsen Tabatabaei Mozdabadi,
the secretary of IUESA said, there are about 20 million typical houses in the
country of which, 63 percent are civilians and 27% leased, according to the
statistics of 2011 population and housing census.
From the total gross costs in the
country during 2011, 2012 and 2013, 30.6, 32.9 and 34.1 percent is related to
the costs of housing and energy. Statistics in Tehran is 44%, 50.4% and 51.6%
during this period. Only 1.5% to 2% of this sector’s costs are related to
energy, electricity, gas and other fuels and rest of them is for housing and
subsidiary services in housing. In 2011, the share of housing from urban family
costs is 47.26% in Tehran annually. These statistics show high share of housing
in family consumption basket.
The share of housing sector,
building and services of residential units of total value added in the national
economy of the country during 2011, 2012 was 14.2% and 15.7%.
The share of this sector of gross
domestic product (at market prices) during the mentioned years is 14.1% and
15.5%, the share of this sector of gross domestic product except oil (at market
prices) is 17.4% and 17.7% and the share of this sector from national revenues
during mentioned years was 16.1 and 18% while the share of 33.6% of industry in
total employment of the country is about 15% in housing sector and subsidiary
services for housing.
Mentioned statistics regarding product, added
value and also employment in housing sector in housing sector, more than 300
industrial fields are related to it, shows the importance of this sector in
macroeconomic dimensions.
Income power and the purchasing
power of applicants should also be considered for organizing housing market. If
this volume of vacant unit is supplied to the market, but due to recession in
the country, enough purchasing power does not exist for it, it will avoid
accomplishing transactions.
Due
to the recession in country, particularly in housing transactions, it is
possible that some house builders did not have enough opportunity to sell their
units and finished expense of housing construction will be increased for them
by paying tax on vacant houses.